Yngwie on Beato

[Kapo_Polenton]

His first 3 albums are amazing

honestly, I give him right up to Eclipse! Fire and Ice is " good" as well. Then the decline starts. But if you think about it, that's 10+ years of solid albums. How many other artists have album after album that are good in their genre? Maiden, Priest, maybe Scorps? The list is not that long in the good 5+ albums. He was consistent and put together some great bands. Funny he mentions loving drum samples though. By the sounds of it, he also likes programmed drums.

Either way, he was cool in this video even if in real life, he can still be a bit of a dick. All good though, goes with his persona. I wouldn't change it.

 

[Kapo_Polenton]

Hey, that was a really good interview. I love Yngwie. I bought the first Rising Force album because of the album cover and when I got it home, I was blown away! Far Beyond the Sun is still a favorite.

Yngwie is the perfect rock star. He’s never out of character because that’s who he really is. My friend’s cousin met him in a store. Yngwie was just shopping, in full gear. Leather pants, jacket, chains, sunglasses and full hair. Looking at vitamins or something. He was more than happy to get a picture with anyone that knew who he was. I honestly want to be Yngwie.

I appreciate him for that.. living the image. He never breaks from character! Meaning essentially, that is who he must be.

 

[Kapo_Polenton]

Yngwie has mastered the art of deflecting and avoiding answering questions. He takes every single question as an opportunity to give his life story about how he first got his guitar when he was 5. He always goes on the same tangent in every interview. We got the story by now! I wish Beato would stop him in his tracks and ask him something else.

I will agree that he could have pushed him a bit more in certain areas. Asked him specifically about working with singers and other musicians etc.

 

[ghosty999]

One thing I recommend all guitar nuts to do is read the Official Biography, then read the unoffocial Biography. They read like two completely different accounts of the same events. WILD.

He's an interesting dude. I love his early works. But when he started producing himself from the home studio... it lost it's charm. The distortion increasing also really bothered me. I prefer the original clean sound he had.

I'm also worired about how he's paying for the Ferrari maintenance haha. The Unoffocial Biog says that those cars eat away at his money. Hopefully he paid off the mortgage!

 

[WizardSouth-JP]

What struck me is how massive Yngwie must be in person, he makes Beato look super tiny in this interview. Yngwie is about 6’3” and has to be 250 ish. Tried to see if his new music was listenable, as I really liked everything up until about “Alchemy” but it’s just pretty bad with him singing. Too bad he doesn’t hire real singers anymore.

 

[ghosty999]

What struck me is how massive Yngwie must be in person, he makes Beato look super tiny in this interview. Yngwie is about 6’3” and has to be 250 ish. Tried to see if his new music was listenable, as I really liked everything up until about “Alchemy” but it’s just pretty bad with him singing. Too bad he doesn’t hire real singers anymore.

He also has hair extensions and wears massive cuban hees. Every little helps

 

[Kapo_Polenton]

One thing I recommend all guitar nuts to do is read the Official Biography, then read the unoffocial Biography. They read like two completely different accounts of the same events. WILD.

He's an interesting dude. I love his early works. But when he started producing himself from the home studio... it lost it's charm. The distortion increasing also really bothered me. I prefer the original clean sound he had.

I'm also worired about how he's paying for the Ferrari maintenance haha. The Unoffocial Biog says that those cars eat away at his money. Hopefully he paid off the mortgage!

The gain Def is a problem because it makes things even more effortless for him and hence the blurred smeared notes and silly sweep phrasing on some of the newer tunes. He complained about the old pickups and using dimarzios simply because they didnt hum in America but that sort of was the seatbelt for his playing. He was incredible back in the day. But yeah the producing from home? The no other band members? He's removed all restraints and is now beyond "more is more".

Those old cars will eat jnto his fortunes for sure, but that has to be why he does the " clinic" tours... which are largely him rushing through songs, being told by nerds how great he is and then taking off while his merch people sell over priced items.

But i still love him lol.

 

[Detroit1973]

Hey, that was a really good interview. I love Yngwie. I bought the first Rising Force album because of the album cover and when I got it home, I was blown away! Far Beyond the Sun is still a favorite.

Yngwie is the perfect rock star. He’s never out of character because that’s who he really is. My friend’s cousin met him in a store. Yngwie was just shopping, in full gear. Leather pants, jacket, chains, sunglasses and full hair. Looking at vitamins or something. He was more than happy to get a picture with anyone that knew who he was. I honestly want to be Yngwie.

Every time i've ever run into him in North Miami....That is exactly how he is dressed. I've seen him at Walt Grace Vintage. & Back in the Day, Late 90's through 2010. i would run into him all the time at Guitar Broker in Ft. Lauderdale. He sold LOTS of Guitars to Gary at Guitar Broker. I got to play a few of his tour guitars that he would bring in to sell. Including a Candy apple red strat with a rosewood board that i REALLY wanted.

 

[Kapo_Polenton]

Also ridiculous is the fact that he parrots the usual story about Bach and Vivaldi and using Hendrix as inapiration when it is clear as day that a lot of his inspiration comes from Uli Roth. Yet, you will never hear him say the name. SAY HIS NAME LORD MALMSTEEN!

 

[Metalhex]

Also ridiculous is the fact that he parrots the usual story about Bach and Vivaldi and using Hendrix as inapiration when it is clear as day that a lot of his inspiration comes from Uli Roth. Yet, you will never hear him say the name. SAY HIS NAME LORD MALMSTEEN!

That sounds exactly like Yngwies music on the Genesis album.

 

[technomancer]

Also ridiculous is the fact that he parrots the usual story about Bach and Vivaldi and using Hendrix as inapiration when it is clear as day that a lot of his inspiration comes from Uli Roth. Yet, you will never hear him say the name. SAY HIS NAME LORD MALMSTEEN!

Which sounds a lot like earlier Blackmore...

 

[Techdeth]

Imagining Yngwie walk into a guitar shop in a tv shirt and basketball shorts would freak me out . I like to think he sleeps in leather and frill PJS

 

[Metalhex]

Imagining Yngwie walk into a guitar shop in a tv shirt and basketball shorts would freak me out . I like to think he sleeps in leather and frill PJS

 

[pintspiller]

Thought Yngwie came really well.....always been a fan since I bought Trilogy as a spotty teenager!

 

[Techdeth]

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I actually have seen this before. I knew he was into tennis .

 

[SpiderWars]

Great interview. I remember anxiously awaiting Rising Force to come out even tho I had just heard of the guy and had only just heard Steeler and Alcatraz...and not without some effort. But then it was like it all happened super fast and I saw him open for AC/DC on that early tour and was blown away. But only a couple records later I was kind of bored with it. He's still one of my all time greats.

 

[MrScratch]

Hey, that was a really good interview. I love Yngwie. I bought the first Rising Force album because of the album cover and when I got it home, I was blown away! Far Beyond the Sun is still a favorite.

Yngwie is the perfect rock star. He’s never out of character because that’s who he really is. My friend’s cousin met him in a store. Yngwie was just shopping, in full gear. Leather pants, jacket, chains, sunglasses and full hair. Looking at vitamins or something. He was more than happy to get a picture with anyone that knew who he was. I honestly want to be Yngwie.

ya i hear he's pretty cool.
i like him. He's a loud mouth but he can back it up!!!

 

[Techdeth]

Great interview. I remember anxiously awaiting Rising Force to come out even tho I had just heard of the guy and had only just heard Steeler and Alcatraz...and not without some effort. But then it was like it all happened super fast and I saw him open for AC/DC on that early tour and was blown away. But only a couple records later I was kind of bored with it. He's still one of my all time greats.

Ya to me he never got a singer I like after SOTO. Soto is awesome. The rest were so vanilla

 

[paulyc]

Man I hate the character. I’d rather see him in jeans and a T shirt. He can even keep the chains and sunglasses.

I hate that he said he never practiced. Total bullshit. Ron Keel said in the time they lived together, he NEVER saw him without a guitar in his hands, whether he was eating cereal or talking on the phone, whatever. Of course he practiced ! A lot ! Why deny it ? Be proud you put the 10,000 hours in !

His tone was so much better with the DiMarzio FS-1s. Those pickups are so great. Smooth, fat, and clear.

Denying the Uli/Blackmore/DiMeola influences is so disingenuous it’s disgusting.

 

[paulyc]

One thing I recommend all guitar nuts to do is read the Official Biography, then read the unoffocial Biography. They read like two completely different accounts of the same events. WILD.

He's an interesting dude. I love his early works. But when he started producing himself from the home studio... it lost it's charm. The distortion increasing also really bothered me. I prefer the original clean sound he had.

I'm also worired about how he's paying for the Ferrari maintenance haha. The Unoffocial Biog says that those cars eat away at his money. Hopefully he paid off the mortgage!

What is the unauthorized biography ? As Above So Below ? I read his authorized biography, I enjoyed it.